Last April, The Black Keys shared new album Ohio Players and ran into some choppy waters trying to launch a tour in support of the LP. Thankfully, the waves have subsided, and the band on Monday announced a leg of their “No Rain, No Flowers” tour that includes a stop at Milwaukee’s BMO Pavilion on Sept. 5.
The show is an extension of The Black Keys’ previously revealed run of performances that starts toward the end of May. The duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney get rolling in Oklahoma and will find their way to Europe before returning for the leg that includes Milwaukee. Their visit to the BMO Pavilion happens toward the end of their travels and will get support from The Heavy Heavy, who released their debut full-length, One of a Kind, last September.
Tickets for The Black Keys’ show Sept. 5 at the BMO Pavilion will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. this Friday, March 21, online via Ticketmaster and at the Summerfest box office. Make sure you listen to 88Nine, too, because we’ll have opportunities for you to win tickets before you can buy them this week, as well as a few chances to win tickets next week.
Artist bios
Formed in Akron, Ohio, The Black Keys are singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney. They’ve been called “rock royalty” by the Associated Press and “one of the best rock ‘n’ roll bands on the planet” by Uncut.
Cutting their teeth playing small clubs, the band has gone on to sell out arena tours and has released 12 studio albums, starting with 2002’s The Big Come Up; continuing with breakout hits like Brothers (2010) and El Camino (2011); and most recently including Ohio Players (2024). The Black Keys have won six Grammy Awards and a BRIT Award, and headlined festivals in North America, South America, Mexico, Australia and Europe.
Formed in 2019, The Heavy Heavy are Georgie Fuller and William Turner, who emerged from the small town of Malvern (a stretch of the English countryside Turner describes as “a beautiful place full of hippies and longhaired people”). Turner took up guitar in his early teens and later played in a series of psychedelic/surf-rock bands, while Fuller’s extensive background includes performing at Montreux Jazz Festival as a teenager and acting in the London theater.
As they moved forward with a mission of “making music that sounds like our favorite records ever,” the duo dreamed up a batch of songs in a London flat and self-released an early version of their EP Life and Life Only in late 2020, following it up with the full-length One of a Kind in 2024.
